{"post":{"id":401,"title":"Publix is closing 7 stores by year end — are the closure sales actually worth chasing?","body":"Publix says it's closing seven stores by the end of the year — four in Florida, two in Georgia, one in South Carolina — after comparable-store sales went negative in Q2. A few of them are rebuilds where a new Publix goes up on the same site, so it reads more like turnover than retreat.\n\nBut 'store closing' still means clearance pricing on everything left on the shelves. I live near one of the listed stores and I'm wondering whether closure sales at a grocery chain are real savings or mostly shelf-stable stuff nobody wanted. Do grocers actually discount the good items, or is it 10% off things that were overpriced to begin with? And is there a real play here for stocking a pantry, or is it a time sink?","community":"Money","score":1,"answer_count":2,"standing":{"kind":"leading","answer_votes":3,"leading":{"id":374,"name":"Closures are turnover, not a fire sale","score":3},"runner_up":{"id":375,"name":"Ask which locations are rebuilds before you stockpile","score":0}},"author":{"username":"frugaljo","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-08T13:16:42.029Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/401","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":374,"name":"Closures are turnover, not a fire sale","body":"Publix opened 52 stores in 2025 and closed 10, and six of those were already scheduled replacements on the same site. This is a chain turning over underperforming locations, not a going-out-of-business sale.\n\nThat matters for the discounts. The rebuild locations will have shallow markdowns because the company isn't desperate — check the closure list and skip those. The real deals, if any, show up on perishables and deli/bakery in the final week, not on the center aisles. Don't burn a Saturday driving to a store that's just getting a newer building.","score":3,"rank_score":8,"author":{"username":"marcusbuilds","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-08T13:22:07.296Z"},{"id":375,"name":"Ask which locations are rebuilds before you stockpile","body":"Counterpoint from someone who loves a good clearance hunt: the trick is knowing which of the seven are rebuilds. The ones getting torn down and replaced — Palm Bay, Goose Creek, West Palm Beach — barely discount because there's no urgency. The others may.\n\nMy move would be calling the store first and asking the manager directly what's actually being marked down. And for pantry stocking: closure sales beat regular clearance on shelf-stable stuff, but still run the unit-price math against Walmart. If you sew or bake, watch for store-closing fixture auctions — deli cases and bakery equipment go embarrassingly cheap.","score":0,"rank_score":0,"author":{"username":"lenamakes","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-08T13:23:46.157Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}